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00J210 -29- * reservoirs in the Canyon of the Colorado River for purposes of flood con- trol, power, and irrigation was disoussed, and at which the Director of the Reo1amation Servioe assured the representatives of the seven States that the construotion of such reservoirs need in no manner interfere with the future development of the upper reaohes of the stre!l1'ls within the states of origin of t m waters to be impounded by the reservoirs situate in the 1C1i1er States, ... The follCliling resolutions were unanimously adoptedl ,"BE IT RBSOLVED, That the resolution adopted "_t the ean- ferenoe of the league, held at Salt Lake City, January 18-21, 1919, and the pr oceedings of t he third convention of the League of the Southwest, held at Los Angeles, April 2-3, 1920, be, and the same are, hereby ratified, approved, and reaffirmed, ''WUEREAS it is the understanding of thi s league, from informa- tion presented by Ron. Arthur P, Davis, direotor of the United States Reo1amation Service, that the water supply of the Colorado River drainage is suffioient to supply the present and future necessities of all of the States whose territory is involved and that all present and future interferenoe with development upon or from the upper reaches of the stream should be !lvoided; now, therefore, be it "RESOLVED, That the league favors the enr1y development of all possible beneficial uses of the waters o. the stream upon the upper reaches of the stream and its tributaries alang the lines set forth in the resolutions adopted at the Salt Lake conference of January 28-31, 1919, and that the present and future restric- tions upon such development by withholding or conditional grant- ing of !lpplications for rights of way across public lands for irrigation works should be discontinued, and that such applical; ians sho'.11d be gr!\nted with that degree of dispatoh which wi 11 permit the construotion of all such proj ects while finanoial and other means are at hand and opportunity for construction exists; be it ~. . "RESOLVED, That it is the sense of this conferenoe that the present and future rights of the several States whose territory is in whole or in part included within the drainage area of the Colo- rado River, and the riGhts of the United States, to the use and benofit of the waters of said stream and its tributaries, should be settled and d-termined by compact or agreement between said States and the United States, with consent of Congress, and that the legislatures of said States be requested to authorize the appoint- ment of commissioners for sach of said States for the purpose of entering into such compact or agreement for subsequent ratifioa- tion and approval by the legislatures of each said States and the Congress of the United Stctes."